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parative Anatomy, in the Koyal University of Turin ; while here 

 he worked up the molhisks collected by de Filippe during the cir- 

 cumnavigation of the Royal Frigate, ' Magenta.' In 1873, 

 Tapparoue began the series of articles upon Oriental land mollusks 

 collected by O. Beccari and L. M. D'Albertis in New Guinea 

 and adjacent regions; and it is to this series of papers that his 

 reputation is chiefly due. 



After a residence of eight years in Turin, Prof. Tapparone went 

 abroad for the purpose of studying the mollusks of foreign 

 museums. He visited the British Museum, the Zoological Museum 

 of Berlin, etc., and finally spent some time in study under Semper 

 at Wiirzburg. Returning to Italy, he went to Genoa, where he 

 devoted himself to the mollusk collection of the Civic Museum. 

 Shortly after, a disease of the circulation and nerves manifested 

 itself, and despite the tenderest care of wife and friends, it proved 

 fatal. 



His collection and library have been given to the Civic Museum 

 of Genoa, by his wife. 



All students of land shells will regret the death of so conscien- 

 tious and able a malacologist ; and particularly will his loss be felt 

 by those who have profited by his " Fauna Malacolorjica della Nuova 

 Guinea," and the other essays upon allied faunas. 



A bibliography and full biographical sketch by Isbel, with por- 

 trait will be found in the Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Nat- 

 urale di Genova. 1892. 



THE TJNIO MUDDLE. 



BY PROF. CHAS. LE ROY AVHEELER. 



Under the above heading appears an article in the February 

 Nautilus from the pen of Mr. Berlin H. Wright. In a recent 

 number, also, appeared an article from Mr. John H. Campbell sug- 

 gesting that the Uniologists connected with the American Associa- 

 tion of Conchologists meet at Chicago this summer and settle dis- 

 puted points as to priority of description, nomenclature, and syn- 

 onymy. Certainly it would be "just too nice for anything" if the 

 aforesaid Uniologists could have a little pic-nic at Chicago, pass 

 a few resolutions forever settling all disputed points, pat each other 



